La socialité du texte dans Une saison au Congo d’Aimé Césaire: Approche sociocritique

Abstract

The social character of the text in Une saison au Congo by Aimee Césaire: A critical approach of societal conditions Although we live in Africa 'the black continent', we are ignorant of blacks. So, this play has been chosen for study as an attempt to offer the nature as well as culture of one of these societies Poet and playwright Aimee Césaire was concerned with issues of blacks, colonialism, and slavery. In the play Une saison au Congo (1973), Césaire dealt with the reign of Lumumba, who started liberating the Congo and wanted to accomplish this enormous task in a short time. But Lumumba was surrounded by domestic as well as foreign conspiracies. The play ends with the assassination of Lumumba and represents many political, social, and cultural aspects characterizing the Congo. It could be said that the play is a historical work as it offers historical events as they occurred though in a literary style.In the current study, there is an attempt to answer the following research questions: How did Césaire depict the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized? How did the Congolese society develop following independence? What are the problems faced by the people of the Congo after independence? What are the political and social customs that Césaire criticized in the Congolese society?This study is based on Claude Duchet's societal critical approach and is divided into three sections: political aspects, social aspects, and cultural aspects.